CONTRIBUTORS

Nicola Allen teaches modules on contemporary fiction, Modernism, and gender at Northampton University and at the University of Wolverhampton. She has published several articles and book chapters on various aspects of twentieth-century British and American fiction, as well as a monograph entitled Marginality in the Contemporary British Novel (Continuum, 2008). Donald R. Burleson holds masters degrees in both Mathematics and English and a PhD in English literature. He is the author of 22 books, including H. P. Lovecraft: A Critical Study (Greenwood Press, forthcom- ing) and Lovecraft: Disturbing the Universe (University Press of Kentucky, 1991), as well as numerous articles of literary criticism. He also enjoys a career in fiction writing, having published four collections of short stories (most recently Wait for the Thunder (Hippocampus Press, 2010) and four novels. His fiction has appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies. He is a semiretired college professor and lives in Roswell, New Mexico, with his writer wife, Mollie. Gerry Carlin is senior lecturer in English at the University of Wolverhampton. He has published on Modernism and the avant-garde, cultural theory, and the literature and culture of the 1960s. Martyn Colebrook submitted his PhD thesis, focusing on the novels of Iain Banks in relation to British fiction after 1970, in early 2012 at the University of Hull. He has wider research interests in contempo- rary American literature, transgression and contemporary culture, and apocalypse fictions. Martyn has also published a number of chapters on topics including Paul Auster, J. G. Ballard, Don DeLillo, The Gothic, Terrorism, novelistic representations of the Yorkshire Ripper, and Scottish Crime Fiction. He is currently editing a collection of essays focusing on Jeanette Winterson and coediting one focusing on Iain Banks. 250 Contributors

Kevin Corstorphine is lecturer in English at the Scarborough Campus of the University of Hull. Following his PhD thesis on haunted houses in American Literature, he has published articles on H. P. Lovecraft, Robert Bloch, Stephen King, and John Ajvide Lindqvist. He is a member of the Gothic steering group for interdisciplinary.net and has blogged on Lovecraft for The Gothic Imagination at Stirling. Steffan Hantke is author of Conspiracy and Paranoia in Contemporary Literature (Peter Lang, 1994), as well as editor of Horror , a special topics issue of Paradoxa (2002), Horror Film: Creating and Marketing Fear (UP Mississippi, 2004), Caligari’s Heirs: The German Cinema of Fear after 1945 (Scarecrow, 2007), American Horror Film: The Genre at the Turn of the Millennium (UP Mississippi, 2010), and, with Rudolphus Teeuwen, of Gypsy Scholars, Migrant Teachers, and the Global Academic Proletariat: Adjunct Labor in Higher Education (Rodopi, 2007). His essays and reviews have appeared in Science Fiction Studies , Critique , StoryTelling , Literature/ Film Quarterly , and other journals. He teaches at Sogang University in Seoul. Mark Jones is senior lecturer in English and award leader for MA Popular Culture at the University of Wolverhampton. He has pub- lished articles and chapters on horror, science fiction, pornography, popular music, and film. S. T. Joshi is the author of such critical studies as The Weird Tale (Wildside Press, 1990), H. P. Lovecraft: The Decline of the West (Wildside Press, 1990), and Unutterable Horror: A History of Supernatural Fiction (forthcoming, 2012). He has prepared corrected editions of H. P. Lovecraft’s work for Arkham House and annotated editions of Lovecraft’s stories for Penguin Classics, as well as editions of his Collected Essays (Hippocampus Press, 2004–06; 5 vols.) and poetry ( The Ancient Track [Night Shade Books, 2001]). His exhaustive biogra- phy, H. P. Lovecraft: A Life (Necronomicon Press, 1996), was expanded and updated as I Am Providence: The Life and Times of H. P. Lovecraft (Hippocampus Press, 2010). J. S. Mackley worked in Press and PR before studying a degree at the University of Stirling as a mature student. He completed a master’s degree in Late Medieval Studies and a PhD at the University of York. He is author of The Legend of Brendan: A Comparative Study of the Latin and Anglo-Norman versions (Brill, 2008), and articles on studies in medi- eval, Gothic, and English folklore. He is currently lecturer in English and Communications at the University of Northampton. Contributors 251

Chris Murray is head of the English Department at the University of Dundee, and lecturer in English, Film and Comics Studies. He runs the United Kingdom’s first Comics Studies MLitt programme and is coeditor of the journal Studies in Comics (Intellect) and author of a monograph on superhero comics and propaganda, Champions of the Oppressed (Hampton Press, 2011), as well as articles on Grant Morrison, Alan Moore, and on horror comics such as Hellblazer . Joseph Norman teaches Literature and Creative Writing at Brunel University, London, where he is a postgraduate researcher examining the intersection(s) of Utopia and Empire in Iain M. Banks’ “Culture” series. His other research interests include: the relationships between music and literature, and science, slipstream, speculative, and trans- gressive fiction. His essay, “Digital Souls and Virtual Afterlives in Iain M. Banks’ Culture Series,” is being published by Macfarland in the edited collection: Border Crossing: Critical Perspectives on the Writing of Iain Banks , (Forthcoming, 2013). In-between writing his thesis, Joseph is also planning his first novel. David Simmons is a lecturer in American Literature, Film and TV at the University of Northampton. He has published extensively on twentieth-century American literature and culture. Including the monograph The Anti-Hero in the American Novel: From Heller to Vonnegut (Palgrave, 2008), and the edited collections New Critical Essays on Kurt Vonnegut (Palgrave, 2009) and Investigating Heroes: Truth Justice and Quality TV (McFarland, 2011). In addition to these, David has written a number of articles on the work of H. P. Lovecraft (in the academic journals Critical Engagements , Symbiosis, and The Romanian Journal of American, British and Canadian Studies ). David is currently coediting a collection on Anglophone Horror fiction for publication by McFarland in 2013. Robert Waugh is a professor emeritus at SUNY New Paltz. He has published two books on Lovecraft, The Monster in the Mirror and A Monster of Voices (Hippocampus Press, 2006 and 2011) as well as two books of poems, Shorewards, Tidewards and Thumbtacks, Glass, Pennies (Codhill Press, 2007 and 2009). Sara Williams recently completed her PhD on “The Maternal Gaze in the Gothic” at the University of Hull, where she currently teaches European Gothic. She has published on demonic possession and hyste- ria in The Exorcist , and also writes for The Journal of Gender Studies. Her research focuses on (mis)representations of motherhood, the hypertextual 252 Contributors circulation of incest trauma narratives and the Gothicization of the everyday. She is currently working on a critical edition of Georgiana Houghton’s Evenings at Home in Spiritual S é ance. Gina Wisker is professor of contemporary literature and higher educa- tion at the University of Brighton where she is head of the center for learning and teaching and teaches literature. Gina’s specialisms are in postcolonial, women’s writing and the Gothic, particularly horror. Gina has written numerous essays on the Gothic and horror of Angela Carter, Sylvia Plath, Nalo Hopkinson, Toni Morrison, women writers from the Caribbean and the Far East, including Erna Brodber, Catherine Lim, Beth Yahp, and many essays on contemporary women’s vampire writ- ing. Her books include Horror Fiction (Continuum, 2005) and Margaret Atwood: An Introduction to Critical Views of her Fiction (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011). Gina also writes on postgraduate learning and supervision: The Postgraduate Research Handbook (Palgrave Macmillan 2nd edition 2007) and The Good Supervisor (Palgrave Macmillan 2005, 2012). INDEX

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30 Days of Night (2007), 153 Beardsley, Aubrey, 37 Beast with a Million Eyes, The (1955), 233 Abjection, 5, 14, 18–19, 22–23, 32, 36, Between the Acts (Woolf), 87–88 50, 149 “Beyond the Wall of Sleep,” 230 Africa, 5, 13–14, 16–17, 18, 20, 20–21, Bierce, Ambrose, 124, 142, 154 24, 27–28, 32, 36, 38, 46, 52, 189, 201 Bishop, Zealia, 32, 34, 37, 51 Alhazred, Abdul, 129, 131, 201, 234, 238 “Black island, The” (Derleth), 123, 128, Alien (1979), 136, 155, 241 129–131 Amundsen, Roald, 91, 92, 93–94, 95, 96 Black Sabbath, 9, 194, 230 Anglophile, 20 Black Metal, 197–198, 199, 202, 203, Anglo-Saxondom, 16–17, 19, 20, 23 206, 230 Anime, 239 Blackwood, Algernon, 2, 212 Arabian Nights, 25 Blade (1998), 145, 148, 151 Arkham, 62, 63, 108, 119, 122, 128, Blair Witch Project, The (1999), 149 194, 211, 233 Blake, William, 158–159, 187 Arkham House, xii, xiii, xiv, 3, 120, Bloch, Robert, xiii, 119, 132, 188 132, 135, 138, 227 Bloom, Clive, 14, 217, 218, 221, 222 Armageddon, 84 Bogue, Ronald, 194, 195, 197, 198, 199, Armitage, Henry, 105, 107–112 200, 203, 206 Astounding Stories, xii Borges, Jorge Luis, xv At the Mountains of Madness, 2, 6, 7, 76, Bradbury, Ray, xiii 78, 91, 96, 101, 122, 143, 144, 147, Brown University, xiv, 67 148, 149, 150, 151, 152, 155, 182, Buddha, 107, 108 183, 199, 232 Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997–2003), 33 Azathoth, 57, 59, 193–195, 196 Burleson, Donald, xiv, 7, 159 Azathoth (band), 193, 199 Byrd, Richard E., 91, 92, 95, 96

Ballard, J.G., 221, 224 Cabin in the Woods, The (2012), 241 Barker, Clive, 145, 148, 203 Call of Cthulhu (2007), 136 254 Index

“Call of Cthulhu, The,” xiii, 2, 75, 76, Cry of the Werewolf (1944), 39 78, 82, 123, 126, 127, 130, 158–159, Cryptography, 110–114 166, 169, 176, 196, 203, 231, 240 Cthulhu Mythos, xiii, 2, 7, 50, 59, 78, “Call of Cthulhu, The” (Role Playing 121, 122, 125, 128, 131, 132, 157, Game), xv, 161, 229–230, 241 161, 175, 176, 185, 193, 194, 201, Caltiki —Il Monstro Immortale (1959), 233 228, 234, 235 Campbell, Joseph, 107 Curse of the Crimson Altar (1961), 231 Campbell, Ramsey, 120, 132, 210, Curwen, Joseph, 122 228, 237 Captain America (2011), 149 “Dagon,” 74, 166, 193 Carroll, Lewis, 221 Dali, Salvador, 73, 89 Carter, Angela, 75 Danforth, 96, 98, 100 Carter, Lin, 51, 132 Dark Shadows (1966–1971), 139 Carter, Randolph, 200, 202 Darwinism, 4 Case of Charles Dexter Ward, The, 2, 78, Davis, Audrey, 32 154, 197, 231 Davis, Sonia H [aft Greene Lovecraft], Cat People (1942), 39 see Greene, Sonia Cather, Willa, xi “Death Grunt,” 196 Celtic Frost, 195, 230 de Camp, L. Sprague, xv, 154 Chabon, Michael, 141, 210 Deep Blue Sea (1999), 148 Chambers, Robert, 124 Deep Time, 74, 80, 86, 88, 89 Chandler, Raymond, 139, 140 Degeneracy, 28, 34, 35, 46, 49, 51, 75, Christ, Jesus, 107, 108, 109 82, 83, 85 “Christabel” (Coleridge), 36–37, 40 Deicide, 195, 196, 197, 230 City of the Dead, The (1960), 232 Deleuze, Gilles, 194, 197, 199, 200, 206 Cixous, Hélène, 31, 44 Del Toro, Guillermo, 7, 143–153, 154, Clarendon, Georgina, 32 155 “Colour Out of Space, The,” xii, 2, 32, De Quincey, Thomas, 23 70, 154, 160, 231, 232 Derleth, August, xii, xiii, xiv, 2, 3, 7, Commonplace Book, 120 51, 106, 119–132, 135, 157, 161, 167, Conrad, Joseph, 14 170, 188, 227, 228, 229, 234, 240 Cook, Paul W., xi Derrida, Jacques, 45 “Cool Air,” 168, 170, 230, 234 Devil Rides Out, The (1968), 231 Cosmic Horror/Cosmicism, 2, 6, 9, 19, Dick, Philip K., 139, 141 50, 55, 59, 63, 66, 69, 73, 81, 82, 83, Dickensian, 219, 223 84, 86, 87, 121, 122, 159, 164, 166, Dickinson, Emily, xi, 50 170, 172, 173, 175, 176, 179, 187, Die, Monster, Die! (1965), 154, 231, 233 200, 203, 204, 206, 228–234, 236, Digimon (1999–), 238 239–241 Doctor Who (1963–), 239–240 Coulthart, John, 177–179, 182, 186 Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark (1973), 146 Cradle of Filth, 202–204, 206 Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark (2010), 147 Crane, Stephen, 139 Doom Metal, 194, 195, 199–200 Creed, Barbara, 31, 59, 69 Doors of Perception, The (Huxley), 158, 174 Creepy, 163, 170, 171, 172, 174 Dracula (1992), 148, 151 Crofts, Anna Helen, 32 Dracula (Stoker), 28, 33 Index 255

Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath, The, Frankenstein (1994), 148, 155 99, 101 Freud, Sigmund, 44, 55, 61, 63, 66, 70, “Dreams in the Witch House, The,” 6, 241 31, 32, 42, 50, 55–56, 58–59, 62, 65, “From Beyond,” 158, 159 66–69, 79–80, 119, 231, 232 From Beyond (1986), 136, 153 Dreiser, Theodore, xi Futurism, 75, 76 Dr Fate, 163–167, 175, 177 Dunsany, Lord, 2, 78, 132 Gaiman, Neil, 51, 175, 176, 177, 188, 210 Dunwich, 49, 107, 109, 110, 196, 211 Gardner, Nabby, 32 “Dunwich Horror, The,” 2, 7, 32, 36, Ghost Story (Straub), 139–140 48, 49, 105–116, 139, 196, 197, 204, Gilgamesh, 106, 108 205, 236 Gilman, Walter, 6, 42–46, 55–69, 70, Dunwich Horror, The (1970), 105, 231 79–82 Due, Tananarive, 33 “Gold Bug, The” (Poe), 17, 114 Dyer, William, 96, 97, 98, 100, 101–151 Gomez, Jewelle, 33 “Gorge Beyond Salapunco, The” E.C. Comics, 167–169, 170, 175, 188 (Derleth), 120, 123, 126 Eco, Umberto, xv Gordon, Stuart, 136, 148, 153 Eerie, 163, 170, 172 Gothic, 1, 2, 4, 6, 9, 13–15, 23, 28, 28, Einstein, Albert, 56, 77, 79, 175 34, 36, 39, 50, 52, 55–70, 119, 160, Eliot, T.S., xi, 6, 41, 77, 78, 79, 85, 88 163, 166, 177, 185, 200, 203, 204, Electric Wizard, 204–205 209, 210, 211, 212, 213, 218, 219, Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 50 223, 227, 231, 239 Egypt, 23–27, 38, 114, 121, 163, 201, Grant, Madison, 15 202, 240 “[Great] Old Ones/Elder Ones,” 2, 32, Eugenics, 15 39, 82, 99, 102, 106, 121, 122, 124, Exorcist, The (1973), 62, 136 125, 126, 128, 129, 131, 170, 172, 175, Extreme Metal, 8, 193, 194, 195, 196, 176, 177, 184, 194, 197, 205, 206, 231, 198, 202, 205, 206 233, 234, 236, 239, 240, 241 Greene, Sonia, 2, 32, 34, 67, 70, see also “Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Sonia Davis Lovecraft Jermyn and His Family,” 5, 13, Guattari, Felix, 194, 197, 199, 200, 206 19–23, 24, 32 Fantasy, 149, 177, 209, 212, 218, 219, Hags, 31, 32, 33, 36, 39, 42, 46, 51, 52 227, 228, 229, 239, 240 Hammett, Dashiell, 139, 140 Faulkner, William, 135 “Haunter of the Dark, The,” 74, 127, Fata Morgana, 92, 94, 96, 98, 100, 101 177, 235 Feldstein, Al, 167–168, 186, 188, 234 Haunting, The (1999), 148 Female Gothic, 6, 55–56, 57, 58–59, 61, Haunting of Hill House, The, (Jackson), 6, 63, 64, 65, 66, 69, 70 59, 69, 70 Femme Fatale, 31, 32, 33, 37, 40, 41, 42, Haunted Palace, The (1963), 154, 231 51, 52 Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 139 “Festival, The,” 125 “He,” 87 Forbidden Knowledge, 20, 58, 124, 159 Heald, Hazel, 32, 34, 51 Fox, Gardner, 163, 168, 176, 186, 188, 234 Heavy Metal Lovecraft Issue, 172 256 Index

Hellboy, 145, 148, 179, 238 Kafka, Franz, 143, 216 Heracles, 106, 109, 110 “Keeper of the Key, The” (Derleth), “Herbert West – Reanimator,” 16, 168, 125, 128, 129, 133 234 King, Stephen, 3, 51, 139, 141, 153, Hewetson, Alan, 235–236 209 Hodgson, William Hope, 210, 241 Kirby, Jack, 188 Hoffmann, E.T.A., 40 Kraken (Miéville), 225 “Hollow Men, The” (Eliot), 85 Kraken Wakes, The (Wyndham), 233 “Horror at Red Hook, The,” 210, 213, Kristeva, Julia, 5, 18–19, 20, 22–23, 24, 214–215, 217, 220, 223 27, 31, 35–36, 45, 49–50, 61 Houdini, Harry (pseud. Of Ehrich Weiss), 23–27, 180 “La Belle Dame sans Merci” Houellebecq, Michel, 4, 9, 17, 24, 27, (Keats), 36 209, 210 Lacan, Jacques, 44, 61 “House on Curwen Street, The” La Marca del Muerto (1961), 231 (Derleth), 122, 124, 126, 127, 131 “Lamia” (Keats), 37, 39, 40 Howard, Robert E., xiii, 119, 211, 237 Last Winter, The (2006), 153 Hysteria, 6, 55–70, 70, 77 Lawrence, D.H., 6, 80–83, 84, 88, 89 Lethem, Jonathan, 139, 141 Immigrants, depictions thereof, 15, 17, Library of America, xv, 4, 7, 135, 137–143, 47, 210, 215 153, 154, 156 “Indifferentism,” 2, 9 Ligotti, Thomas, 228 In Lovecraft’s Shadow (Derleth), 120 Liminality, 5, 21, 33, 43, 45, 51, 52, 62, Innsmouth, 46, 48, 83, 119, 123, 124, 64, 65, 83, 85, 155, 201 126, 128, 130 Lockwood, Dan, 159 Irigaray, Luce, 31 London, 182, 211–214, 216, 218, 219–225 It Came from beneath the Sea (1955), 233 Long, Frank Belknap, Jr., xiii, 34, 241 “Looking for Jake” (Miéville), 211, 213, Jackson, Rosemary, 216 215, 217–219, 225 Jackson, Winifred V., 32, 34 Lord of the Rings, The (trilogy, 2001–2003), James, Henry, 41, 59, 139 144, 149 Jane Eyre (Bronte), 59, 231 Lovecraft (Rodionoff), 8, 180, 241 Jenkin, Brown, 42, 43, 45, 57, 59, 63, Lovecraft, Annie, 67 65, 68, 79, 80, 193 Lovecraft, Lillian, 67 Jermyn, Arthur, 5, 13, 20, 21, 22, 25, Lovecraft, Sarah Susan Phillips, 67, 69, 70 27, 36, 46 Lovecraft, Whipple, 67 Jermyn, Sir Alfred, 21 Lovecraft, Winfield, 67 Jermyn, Sir Robert, 20 Lovecraft Annual, xv, 135 Jermyn, Sir Wade, 20, 21 Lovecraft Studies, xv, 91, 135 Joshi, S.T., 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 19, 34, 35, 37, Leiber, Fritz, xiii, 119, 132, 210 55, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 77, 89, 93, Lewis, Sinclair, xi 105, 106, 120, 121, 122, 124, 131, Lewis, Wyndham, 76–77, 80 132, 138, 140, 141, 142, 153, 154, Lumley, Brian, 51, 132, 241 157, 159, 175, 228, 229 Lurker at the Threshold, The, 120 Joyce, James, 77 “Lurking Fear, The,” 49 Index 257

Machen, Arthur, 2, 132, 210, 212–213, Nazism, 33, 149, 176, 240 224 Necronomicon, 39, 49, 108, 110, Marduk, 106 119–122, 124, 127–128, 129, 131, Marsh, Ahab, 126 168, 194, 196, 197, 201, 234, 236, Marxism, 212, 220 240, 242 Mason, Keziah, 31, 42–43, 45, 55, 79, 80 Neonomicon (Moore and Burrow), 8, 157, Materialism, 9, 86, 212 183–184, 187 Mather, Cotton, 64 New Crobuzon, 213, 219, 221, 223 Matheson, Richard, xiii New Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos Maze, The (1953), 233 (Campbell), 228 “Medusa’s Coil” (Lovecraft-Bishop), 31, New Weird, 8, 154, 198, 204, 210, 211, 32, 33, 36–37, 39, 42, 51 218, 228, 229, 241 Melville, Herman, 139 New York, 15–16, 34, 47, 175, 210 “Memory,” 198 Nietzsche, Friedrich, 82 Merchandising, xv, 151 Night Gallery, 230, 231, 242 Metallica, 194–195, 230 Nihilism, 17, 19, 77, 80, 83, 230 Miéville, China, 4, 8, 209–225 Nile, 200–202, 206 Mirages, 6–7, 91–102 Northanger Abbey (Austen), 56, 66 Miscegenation, 4, 13, 15, 19, 23, 28, 31, “Nyarlathotep,” 84, 163, 166, 198 32, 33, 35, 46, 49, 51, 52 Miskatonic University, 49, 79, 91, 108, Oates, Joyce Carol, 3, 15, 34, 48, 50, 142 110, 119, 122 Oedipus Complex, 40, 67 Modernism, 6, 73, 75–88, 89, 142, 222 Onga’s, 21–23, 25, 27 Moebius (pseud. Jean Henri Gaston “On the Creation of Niggers,” 16 Giraud), 172–173, 175, 188–189 Orientalism, 20, 23, 26, 95, 98 Monomyth, 107, 109, 110 Osiris, 108, 109, 110, 121 Monster That Challenged the World, The Other, 5, 13, 15, 17, 18, 26, 27, 28, 31, (1957), 233 32, 33, 35, 36, 44, 45, 46, 50, 52, 81, Moore, Alan, 8, 157, 175–176, 177, 82, 83, 187, 237 183–186, 241 “Outsider, The,” 1, 168, 199, 201 Moore, Catherine L., 32 Morbid Angel, 195, 196, 197, 230 Peaslee, Dr Nathaniel, 74 Morrison, Grant, 161, 175–177, 242 Penguin (Modern) Classics, xv, 3, 153 Morrison, Toni, 13, 17 “Pickman’s Model,” 101, 230, 234 Moss, 194 Pirates of the Caribbean (2006), 136 “Mound, The” (Lovecraft-Bishop), 51 Poe, Edgar Allen, xv, 2, 3, 17, 111, 114, “Music of Erich Zann, The,” 198, 224, 132, 135, 138, 139, 141, 154, 160, 235 168, 187, 212, 231, 235 Mummy, The (1999), 148 Postmodernism, 142 Mysteries of Udolpho, The (Radcliffe), 56, 66 Pound, Ezra, xi Pratchett, Terry, 51 “Nameless City, The,” 75, 124, 128, “Prestige Horror,” 148, 151 129, 194, 199, 201 Price, Robert M., 121, 129, 132, 228 Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym, The Primitivism, 80–81, 83 (Poe), 17, 155 Prometheus (2012), 241 258 Index

Providence, 2, 34, 57, 67 Sherlock Holmes, 119, 242 Pulps, The, xi, 7, 106, 132, 135, 138–142, Shining, The (1980), 136 157, 162–163, 209, 222, 227 Silence of the Lambs, The (1991), 148 Punter, David, 15, 23, 28, 50, 209, 218 Shoggoth/s, 92, 100–102, 151, 153, 232, Puritanism, 34–35, 62, 186 235, 236 Shub-Niggurath, 50, 51 Quatermass 2 (1957), 232 Smith, Clark Ashton, xiii, 119, 121, 129, Quatermass Xperiment, The (1955), 232 210, 211 South Park (1997–), 240 Racism (and Lovecraft’s writing), 4, 5, Speculative Realism, 228–229 13, 14–17, 19, 24, 31, 46, 185, 187, Strange Adventures of H.P. Lovecraft, The, 209, 210 180–181 Radio adaptations of Lovecraft, 233 Straub, Peter, 137, 139–141, 153, 154, 210 Raimi, Sam, 148 Sublime, The, 6, 69, 100, 145, 150, 197, “Rats in the Walls, The,” 32, 83, 235 198, 207 Real Ghostbusters, The, 9, 238, 239 “Supernatural Horror in Literature,” xii, Re-Animator (1985), 136, 153, 230, 231 xvi, 121, 154, 200, 222 Rebecca (Du Maurier), 231 Swamp Thing, 237 “Return of Hastur, The” (Derleth), 121–124, 125 Tain, The (Miéville), 211–212, 221–222, Roerich, Nicholas, 93, 97 224 Romantics, 36–37, 39 Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The (1974), 149 Rosemary’s Baby (1968), 231 Thaw, The (2009), 153 R’lyeh, 38, 124, 178, 181, 196, 197, 199 Theroux, Paul, xv Thing from Another World, The (1951), Sac Prairie Saga (Derleth), 119 153, 232 Salem Witch Trials, 61–65, 69, 70, 71 “Thing on the Doorstep, The,” 32, 153 Saving Private Ryan (1998), 149 Thompson, C. Hall, 132 Schultz, David E., xiv, 1, 19, 37, 67, 69, “Through the gates of the Silver Key” 70, 89, 120, 124, 132 (Lovecraft-Price), 200 Science Fiction, xii, xiii, 2, 100, 145, The Time Machine (Wells), 223 155, 162, 163, 198, 209, 210, 218, “Tomb, The,” 74 227, 231–233 Trail of Cthulhu, The (Derleth), 7, 122–132 Scooby Doo! Mystery Incorporated Trevor, Lady Margaret, 32 (2010–2013), 238 Trollenberg Terror, The (1958), 232 Scott, Captain Robert F., 6, 91–93, 96 Turn of the Screw, The (James), 59 Self Made Hero comics, 182–183, 187 Twain, Mark, 135 Sexuality (and Lovecraft’s Writing), 6, 34–36, 40–42, 45, 46, 49, 51, 70, Ulysses (Joyce), 77 185–187, 188 “Under the Pyramids,” 5, 13, 23–27, 202 Shackleton, Ernest, 6, 91, 92, 94, 95–96 Underworld (2003), 149 “Shadow Out of Time, The,” xii, 74, 75, 122, 127 Vadar, 195, 197 “Shadow over Innsmouth, The,” 32, 36, Vandemeer, Ann, 2 75, 83, 119, 125, 126, 130, 166 Vandemeer, Jeff, 2 Index 259

Vidal, Gore, xv Whateley, Wilbur, 49, 106–110, 114, 205 Verne, Jules, 94 “Whisperer in the Darkness, The,” 51, 121, 124 Waite, Asenath, 32 Whitman, Walt, 50, 139 Wandrei, Donald, xii, 3, 120, 135 Wilson, Dr. Edward, 93 War of the Worlds, The (Wells), 231 Wilson, Edmund, xii–xiii, 3 Ward, Vincent, 143 Witches, 6, 31–33, 42–46, 51, 52, 56, Waste Land, The (Eliot), 77–78, 79 68, 97, 204, 221, 232, 237 “Watcher from the Sky, The” (Derleth), Wolf (1994), 148 121, 125 Wolfman, The (2010), 149 Waves, The (Woolf), 86 Woolf, Virginia, 6, 85–88, 89 Weird Fiction, xi, xiii, xiv, xvi, 2, 4, 73, Wrightson, Berni, 170–172, 182, 186, 237 89, 120, 140, 198, 205, 206, 209, 210, Wuthering Heights (Bronte), 33 211, 213, 222 Weird Tales, xi, xii, xiii, 37, 70, 88, 106, Yeats, W.B., 83 119, 122, 128, 132, 141, 142, 153, 162, “Yellow Wallpaper, The” (Gilman), 6, 163, 212, 227, 235 59, 69 Welles, Orson, 143 Yog-Sothoth, 48, 106, 107, 108, 124, Wells, H.G., 87, 221, 223, 231 195, 197 Whateley, Curtis, 115 Yuggoth, 38 Whateley, Lavinia, 5, 31, 32, 48, 49, 107, 109–110, 204 Zann, Eric, 205